‘Westway Warriors’: the nest of Isis fighters from a few London streets

Yunis Benelbaida: the former barber was arrested at Turkey-Syria borderINSTAGRAM

A key figure in the Isis “Beatles” beheading gang is feared to have recruited more than a dozen fighters from a small pocket of west London for jihad in Syria and Iraq.

A Sunday Times investigation can reveal at least 14 men from a network of streets on either side of the A40 Westway flyover are suspected to have travelled to the conflict zone to join Isis and its precursor groups.

The men, nicknamed “the Westway Warriors”, includes two sets of brothers and a barber from Ladbroke Grove who was recently detained while trying to return to Britain.

The whereabouts of two of the suspected fighters, including one who posed on social media with a severed head, remain unknown. US officials believe Alexanda Kotey, who…

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